Gods and myths of the Viking age

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Page 26But Snorri guessed that most readers would be won by the persuasive tongues of
the Great Three to listen for a while to their account of the vanished world of the
gods. The World Tree This world had for its centre a great tree, a mighty ash ...

Page 192afield, in the regions where shamans are trained to cultivate the mantic trance,
and claim to have the power to send their spirits out of the body for long journeys
to the other world. In these various mythologies, the tree which links the different
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Page 195that there is one spring only, like that below the tree beside the temple at Uppsala
, and that this spring, like the tree itself, had ... Such close resemblances between
the Scandinavian picture of the World Tree and the recorded beliefs of the ...